Quotes About Solitude

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.

I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.

One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with is the high-pitched drone of your nervous system.

I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.

I don't belong to any social network, and I don't even message much. In fact, most of the time, I don't even use my mobile phone.

I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

Very few people spend time with themselves anymore. Which could be the reason why there has been an exponential rise in jerks. Do the world a favour. Stay in, you're not missing anything you can't make up for the next time round.

For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

You won't really see me at any events, any nightclubs.

Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.

There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

Most nights, I'm happy to stay at home with a DVD and a bowl of lettuce.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I ain't got no friends.

I have no friends.

It's no fun being lonely.

I just have no interest in being at a party.

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

To be real with you, I have no problem with being a hermit, man.

I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.

Those memories were mine and mine alone, for I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.